In her case the barrier was not selfishness but the perception that her interest
would be misinterpreted, naturally. It looked as if it had taken its
world for granted and prospered on that assumption—a world in which children
were trained to obey their elders and the wills of women over-ruled as a matter
of course. Come!
come!"
"Hear me, mother," cried Jack, "and I will explain to you why the villain makes
this strange and revolting proposal. Bête, she told herself fiercely. ”
“She’ll meet somebody one of these days—walking about like that. "I dare not, Rowland," she answered. Tell Bess to
slip out, and I'll put on her cloak and hood. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. It
isn’t because you’re good, but because I may be rotten bad; and there’s
something—something living and understanding in you. What was the fellow doing in this part
of the town? Had not Lady Bicknacre said he was living at Paddington?
The Frenchman, booted and neat in buckskin breeches and a plain frockcoat, a
flat-brimmed hat on his head, paused a moment at an intersection with one of the
roads leading north, apparently seeking a street sign.
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